Quotes About Struggle

Because I simply couldn't make up my mind to do it. I never can make up my mind about anything myself—I'm always afflicted with indecision. Just as soon as I decide to do something I feel in my bones that another course would be the correct one. It's a dreadful misfortune, but I was born that way, and there is no use in blaming me for it, as some people do.

Oh, oh, it's not meself that do be knowing what the girls of today are coming to. Trying to make thimselves into min and not succading very well at that.

For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by the joy of the strife. Next to trying and winning the best thing is trying and failing.

price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

Well, well, we can't get through this world without our share of trouble. I've had a pretty easy life of it so far, but my time has come at last and I suppose I'll just have to make the best of it.

I was just trying to write out some of my thoughts, as Professor Hamilton advised me, but I couldn't get them to please me. They seem so still and foolish directly they're written down on white paper and black ink. Fancies are like shadows... you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things. But perhaps I'll learn the secret someday if I keep trying.

He jumped into the pond to drown himself once and then changed his mind and swum out again. Wasn't that like a man?

Çabalay?p kazanmaktan sonraki en iyi ÅŸey, çabalay?p kaybetmektir.

It's all very well to say resist temptation, but it's ever so much easier to resist it if you can't get the key.

He was surrounded by tyrants who thought they had a right to order him about: it was a conspiracy. He could not call his soul his own.

I don't know how to be me and how to be sexual at the same time.

Every story needs a villain, she said grimly.

I often lamented the wicked turns my life had taken, but I rarely considered how much I had to be thankful for, how I had survived so long where so many others had perished

All immigrants walk around with a scar left behind by their crossing into a new country, an invisible mark of the exile that became their condition when they were uprooted.

She's as bad as the most racially deprived white person fetishizing Asian culture. Her interest in Dagou, in the Chao family, is entirely due to her sense of deprivation after having been raised as racially Chinese in a well-meaning but white American family. Can't she get over it?

Because self-hatred is as galvanizing as ambition.

There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it's himself.

How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?

There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it's himself.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

You don't just fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else.

Sloth is the natural result of unrewarded hard work among the poor, reason enough for them to be prickly.

As he grew accustomed to the dark, his mind seemed to stop functioning and he could no longer keep his eyes open. Was he still walking, or had he stopped? All he sensed was a wavelike motion in his head, like black ocean swells; the darkness attached itself to his mind, unsettled, flustered, confused